>> But people are motivated toward pleasure and away from pain, so if learning
>> > FP is going to cause too much pain, it's going to be a non starter.
>> Yes it is painful.
Says who?
I wrote my first functional program in my fifth decade of life. And as
my sixth approaches, I continue to learn about FP with an underlying
fury -- fury that from age 14 to 40+, my teachers, my peers, and my
field conspired to hide this natural and elegant way of doing things
from me. --PR